2019 iTHINK Solutions Tour

Sept 7th thru Oct 16

40 Days and 40 Nights

2019 iTHINK Solutions Tour (ST) is an integral part of a national public safety and quality of life effort focusing on saving lives and restoring families and communities by effectively addressing many of America’s decades-old issues. The tour visited 10 states and 13 cities gathering primary data on the ground, while identifying individuals, organizations, and companies to implement and administer iTHINK Solutions. iTHINK Solutions are practical, viable, result driven, and location-based solutions that address complex issues from the inside out. The issues at the forefront are:

Senseless Violence
Homelessness
Drugs
Poverty
Food Deserts
Access to Affordable Housing
Connective Workforce Development
Community-Based Economic Development

ST participants and supporters are American citizens from various walks of life and states that believe in their community, city, and most of all the human race. Each participant brings a unique and valuable perspective through personal experience as it relates to the issues. Tour participants will recruit like-minded individuals, organizations, and companies that have the desire, heart, courage, and a body of work that demonstrates their commitment to tackling these complex issues.

The tour kicked-off Sept 7, 2019 in Dallas, TX and ended in Dallas, TX visiting the following cities and states:

Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
Oakland, California
St. Louis, Missouri
Chicago, Illinois
Detroit, Michigan
Cincinnati, Ohio
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Baltimore, Maryland
Atlanta, Georgia
Memphis, Tennessee
Houston, Texas
Dallas, Texas

America has spent trillions waging war on its most complex issues such as poverty, drugs, homelessness, and violence along with trillions more of taxpayers dollars on food insecurity, workforce development, and affordable housing, seemingly losing in each category. A productive Tour captured the necessary data to deliver effective solutions, tools, and resources to create change in participating cities, while assisting with lessening the burden of government and reducing waste and fraud of taxpayers dollars.

Support The Movement

Public Safety and Quality of Life

iTHINK

iTHINK is a life-saving effort that seeks to prevent and reduce criminal activity by tackling poverty and offering a variety of tools and educational training activities to enhance safety and life experiences and financial opportunities to foster a more positive environment.

WHY

Homelessness and Quality of Life

F.A.M.I.L.Y.

Forgiving All Missteps Investing Love Yearlong (FAMILY) is an innovative, practical, data-driven, and viable solution designed by iTHINK Solutions to significantly reduce chronic and circumstancial homelessness. FAMILY offers a 100% home ownership guarantee upon successful completion of the solution. FAMILY is designed to be completed within a 4 year time period regardless of the reasons for homelessness.

WHY

Drug-Free Communities

R.A.D.I.C.A.L.

Removing All Drugs Inside Communities Annihilating Lives (RADICAL) is a community-controlled measure to replace drugs with opportunities. Instead of just arresting and incarcerating, RADICAL provides a divergence program that will restore families if completed. Drugs that must be extracted in order for communities to thrive include: crack, heroin, opioids, and syrup - but not limited to those, of course.

WHY

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Connective Workforce Development

P.R.O.

Providing Real Opportunities (PRO) is a location-based workforce development training program for young adults in hard-to-reach and underserved areas in select American cities. Created with the purpose of minimizing barriers to economic success for various demographics, PRO intends to leverage the skills and knowledge of the surrounding community experts to ensure local needs are met and mentored in a culturally aware, transparent, and effective way.

WHY

Community-Based Economic Development

P.T.I.

Pathways To Independence (PTI) provides a series of business training courses, along with hands-on mentoring to new and previously established small, local business owners, which, if completed, will allow participating trainees to become eligible for microfinance support as either start-up capital and/or capacity- building funds.

WHY

Partnerships in Affordable Housing

MY BACKYARD

MY BACKYARD is a neighborhood ownership stabilization program pilot focusing on local ownership and rental affordability for existing residents. MY BACKYARD partners will include local municipalities, nonprofits, and private resources.

MY BACKYARD will work in conjunction with PRO to promote home ownership for participants.

WHY